sagittalis

Updated: May 5, 2025

South Europe, 1758. This is a slender-growing shrub, about 18 inches high, with narrow leaflets, and terminal heads of yellow flowers produced in summer. G. SAGITTALIS. South Europe, 1750. With its peculiarly winged and jointed stems, which are of a deep green colour, this is one of the most distinct forms.

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For instance, the mediastinum, the sutura sagittalis, the scrobiculus cordis, the marsupium cordis, the chambers of the heart, the velum palati, the trochanter, the rima glottidis, the fontanelles, the alæ of the nose, all have their present names, not from original Latin expressions, but from the translation of Arabic terms.

James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - Old-Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences: Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages